Low-dose CT cuts lung-cancer deaths
Initial results from a large study have shown there to be 20% fewer deaths from lung cancer among people screened with low-dose helical computed tomography compared with standard chest x-ray.
Initial results from a large study have shown there to be 20% fewer deaths from lung cancer among people screened with low-dose helical computed tomography compared with standard chest x-ray.
Because the HbA1c test doesn’t require fasting, clinicians hope it will reduce the number of people going undiagnosed with type 2 diabetes
Women with coexisting diabetes and depression are at particularly high risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.
Characterized by impaired myocardial performance, heart failure is often misdiagnosed. Clinicians should focus on prevention and early detection
A CDC analysis reveals that only 5.9% of adults aged 18 to 64 years received the Tdap vaccine in 2008.
Women aged 67 years and older with normal bone mineral density scores may not need to undergo such testing again for 10 years.
Hypertension in blacks is such a serious health problem that treatment thresholds should be lowered and providers should quickly move to multidrug therapy to keep BP comfortably below the thresholds.
Fewer than one in five U.S. primary-care physicians follow practice guidelines for all recommended colorectal cancer screening modalities.
Ivabradine is a novel agent that lowers heart rate by inhibiting the I(f) current in the sinoatrial node.
Although the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity, five days a week, few long-term data corroborated the amount of activity necessary to keep weight off until now.